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How to Collect and Use Recognition Insights – Recognition Radio #4

In this week’s Recognition Radio broadcast, we will talk about How to Collect and Use Recognition Insights. Host Darcy Jacobsen will tackle the topic of recognition big data, and how we can use recognition moments and relationships to visualize team and company culture, and to enhance culture management, succession planning, employee development and performance assessment.

Recognition insights are a powerful way to manage. Are you letting them slip through your fingers? Join us for this short...

Guest Blog: Why We Need “Work Friends”

I read an article recently about having friends at work and outside work. It reminded me of the Gallup Q12 item that addresses having a best friend at work.

For those who might not be familiar, the Gallup Q12 is a survey that measures employee engagement. It’s consists of 12 statements that measure what matter to employees. One of them is “I have a best friend at work.”

As a human resources professional, I believe it is important for employees to have friends at work. We spend way too much time...

Are Annual Employee Surveys Dead?

Last Spring, when I was leaving SHRM, I travelled through the Orlando airport. Maybe you did too?

If you did, you may have seen, somewhere between check-in and your gate, a sign posted on a small kiosk (created by a brilliant little Finnish company called HappyOrNot), that said “How was your airport experience, today?”

Under the sign were four large button smiley faces that looked like the ones to the right. As I rushed to catch the transit train, I reached out and tapped the dark green smiley....

How to Recognize Employees Effectively – Recognition Radio #3

In this week’s Recognition Radio broadcast, we will talk about How to Recognize Employees Effectively. We will offer some actionable advice for what to say (and what not to say) in recognition. We will talk about calibrating award values, which words to use, and how to deliver the award. We’ll also talk about recognizing in a global or multi-cultural environment, and what resonates with different groups.

Join us for this short, 20 minute broadcast and ensure that your recognition message is be...

eBook: 8 Things You Never Realized Service Anniversaries Could Do

We think we know what service anniversaries are. We think we know what they can do for us. We think we know their limitations.

Well, throw all of that thinking out the window.

Anniversaries can do so much more. We’ve just published a new eBook, A New Vision for Milestones, to help you consider a shift in how you think about and leverage your employees’ years of service milestones. Written from the employee’s perspective, this eBook takes you on a journey of what could be, explores eight new per...

The Dangers of Employee Silence

“No news is good news” is a common, fingers-crossed sentiment in many HR departments.

It isn’t that we aren’t open to hearing from employees. But often we spend so much time running around putting out fires that a little bit of silence can be truly golden. It means things are finally running smoothly.

Or does it?

According to an article published in the latest Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior—employee silence can sometimes be a sign of something much more om...

Creating Service Anniversaries That Inspire Everyone

I am so excited today, to tell you that we have officially launched our newest product innovation: Service Timelines™. Check it out in the video, below:

(Click here if you can’t see the video.)

This video, more eloquently than I ever could, really gets to the emotional heart of Service Timelines—because that is really what it is, an emotional heart. This is an actual video of an actual service anniversary that our own head of HR recently experienced. (And we even had to cut some of the most mov...

Finding Opportunities for Recognition – Recognition Radio #2

How often should you recognize employees? What kind of behavior should you praise? What should managers look for when building a culture of appreciation in their teams? As part of our Manager’s Field Guide to Recognition Series, Globoforce Recognition Radio tackles the nuts and bolts of recognizing effectively and offers you tools for deepening the impact of appreciation in your organization.

In this week’s Recognition Radio broadcast, we will talk about Finding Opportunities for Recognition....

The Incredible Impact of Work Friendships (Infographic & Report)

We’ve known for a while now how important work friendships are. For years, item 10 on Gallup’s Q12 Meta-Analysis for engagement has been “Do you have a best friend at work?” Work friendships, says Gallup, are linked statistically to retention. They’ve noted that employees with a best friend at work are:

43% more likely to report having received praise or recognition for their work.
37% more likely to report that someone at work encourages their development.
35% more likely to report coworker com...

3 Lessons Companies Can Learn from Kindergarteners

This was my little daughter’s first week of kindergarten. It was an overwhelming and incredibly exciting experience for her. (And let’s face it, for me, too.) I’m sure a lot of you have been there.

During the first week of school, parents are invited to hang out for morning assembly. I spent a lot of time waiting around and observing, and thinking about how, minus all the shouting and tears, the first week of school is a lot like starting a new job. Though obviously employees are not children,...